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Moonsnare Specialist

Creature — Human Ninja

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
When this creature enters, return up to one target creature to its owner's hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Foundations Jumpstart
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#6886
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Moonsnare Specialist card art
Moonsnare Specialist hits the table as a two-mana 1/3 with ninjutsu, and the payoff is immediate: whenever it deals combat damage to a player, you put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. That's a free deployment trigger stapled to a cheap ninja body, and in any deck built around ninjutsu — especially Splinter, Radical Rat or Thousand-Faced Shadow lists — that trigger converts one combat step into a cascading board state.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

34.5% of decks · synergy 0.34

Splinter, Radical Rat is the highest-synergy home for Moonsnare Specialist because both cards reward you for ninjutsu-ing repeatedly, and Moonsnare's damage trigger drops another creature into the attack — giving Splinter yet another body to cycle back through ninjutsu and compound the value chain.

02
Goro-Goro and Satoru

Goro-Goro and Satoru

29.9% of decks · synergy 0.29

Goro-Goro and Satoru care about creatures dealing combat damage and tokens entering the battlefield, so Moonsnare Specialist's damage trigger feeds both halves of the commander's engine at once.

05
Satoru Umezawa

Satoru Umezawa

16.0% of decks · synergy 0.13

Satoru Umezawa gives every creature in hand ninjutsu, so Moonsnare Specialist's damage trigger cascades into more ninjutsu fodder, and the 1/3 body is consistent enough to connect through early blockers and keep the chain going.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Moonsnare Specialist earns its keep — ninjutsu is a multiplayer mechanic at heart, and the free deployment trigger scales sharply when three opponents are running out blockers. In Pauper, it's a legitimate roleplayer in ninjutsu-forward builds, where its low cost and relevant body give the archetype a second angle of attack. Modern and Pioneer see essentially no competitive play for Moonsnare Specialist; ninjutsu is too slow for those formats and the creature's stats don't pass muster outside a synergy shell. Legacy and Vintage can run it in theory, but no meaningful competitive context exists there either. Stick to Commander and Pauper.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Moonsnare Specialist is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb, so treat this as a permanent low-cost slot, not a speculative hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.